King, Annie Mae

Annie Mae King helped African-Americans register to vote, and during Freedom Summer she housed white volunteers.As a result of her efforts she was fired from her job as a cook, and her home was bombed.Annie May King also was a teacher of Head Start, a federally funded educational program with the purpose of educating blacks and the poor (Olson).

Sources:

Moye, J. Todd.Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

Olson, Lynne. Freedom’s Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970. New York and London: Scribner, 2001.